Online Observations

Emad Ibrahim, an accomplished developer, has put together a Twitter clone. Now he has done this because he wanted to learn the latest version of Asp.net MVC framework.

Asp.net MVC framework rocks.  I wanted to play with it more and decided why not build an open source twitter.

So he did, and came up with Yonkly: built entirely on Asp.Net and is going to be entirely open source. It has all the features that Yonkly has and then some more. It has built-in a lot of features that Twitter didn’t have to begin with and depended on third party software to create.

Here’s a quick peek at some of the features:

• Built-in Url Shortening
• Integration with Gravatar
• Conversation Threads
• Message Deletes

Emad put together this and other features in less than a week’s worth of effort (is that because of the developer or the development platform, I wonder). He has plenty of other features planned, which he will add based on what sort of involvement he gets from the open source community.

Head over the Emad’s blog to read more about Yonkly.

Although I am certain that the idea is not to be a contender for Twitter at this stage, but then good things have a way of becoming big all on their own on the Internet.